nbc's john yang is in chicago with this story. john, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. this chicago restaurant, they serve up 500 pounds of ham, pork sausage and, yes, bacon. 500 pounds a week. so it's big news here. the pork suppliers are headed down, and prices are headed up. on the twitter verse they are calling it an aporkolypse and bacongeddon. at this chicago landmark breakfast means bacon and eggs. >> you're going to see a whole lot of angry people if pork really does get taken off the menu for breakfast. >> reporter: from pork producers around the world, a warning. next year it's lakely to be harder and more expense i ever to bring home the bacon and fry it up in a pan. >> we set a record in september 2011 for retail prices, and i think we're going to shatter that next year. >> reporter: that's because this summer's drought has driven up the price of corn and soybeans used to feed hogs, leading farmers to cut costs by cutting the number of pigs they raise. in 2007 u.s. farmers produced about 51 pounds of p